The aim of my practicum emphasized 5 areas:

· The St. Louis Community Meal

· Collaboration with partners on and off Campus

· Social Justice emphasis at Saint Louis University’s Campus Kitchen

· Advocacy and systemic change

· Direct work with individuals experiencing food insecurity and

The first focus area is the St. Louis Community Meal, an event that aims to bring a sense of fellowship between the SLU community and members of the St. Louis community. We especially intend to welcome those who are forced to the margins by poverty and discrimination. This meal and other Campus Kitchen work included partnerships from Labre, other Certified Student Organizations and local community organizations to bring a meal, group activities and games, and resources to SLU. The meal was created with the intention to transform our campus into a space for community building and people to access resources and support networks safely with a sense of dignity.

The third focus area was factsheets and intentional conversations, created for Campus Kitchen to instill social justice understanding and meaningful conversations into service. Additionally, to instill justice through action, advocacy call-in days regarding food insecurity took place to create a more systemic change and model for Campus Kitchen leaders and teach the SLU community about how food insecurity is affecting our neighbors. All work was done through relationship building with nonprofit organizations, the campus community, and especially the residents experiencing food insecurity at Council Towers during Campus Kitchen food delivery shifts.

Delanie Muenchen would like to thank their faculty sponsor Pamela Huggins for their support of this project.